What's Your Four?

If someone asked you what four books you'd like to read this summer would you know off the top of your head or would you think long and hard about your selection? I find myself leaving the television off in the summer and reading more so I'm happy to have the time to read more than four books, although, my summer selections are usually quicker and lighter reading then I select in the winter.

The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissions is challenging all of the residents of Massachusetts to read four books this summer. To help promote this effort the staff at Duxbury Library has been asked to share their four summer reads. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter : @DuxburyFreeLibrary to see what four books our staff has selected for their own personal reading this summer. Don't forget to check in for other library happenings (sign up online for our Summer Reading Program for all Ages) and previews of scheduled events, including highlights, such as, our author events, "Escape Room" event, and last year's favorite "Indoor Miniature Golf".


These are four reads I've enjoyed over the summer.

"Force of Nature" is the second in a mystery series by Jane Harper and set in the Australian outback. It is not necessary to read the first from this series ("The Dry") to thoroughly enjoy this intriguing mystery of a person who goes missing while on a corporate "adventure" team building outing. Both books have put Jane Harper as a "must read" author on my list as well as a fan of Aussie noir.


"The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" by Kim Michelle Richardson is a new historical fiction where you will step into the life of a "blue" Kentucky woman who brings reading material to impoverished people of rural Kentucky. Who wouldn't like a character who described in Goodreads as "she befriends hardscrabble and complex fellow Kentuckians, and is fiercely determined to bring comfort and joy, instill literacy, and give to those who have nothing, a bookly respite, a fleeting retreat to faraway lands".  

I breezed through "One True Loves" by Taylor Jenkins Reid, finding it a very enjoyable heartfelt contemporary romance set in Massachusetts about first love and self-discovery. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented and highly rated contemporary fiction author whose book "Daisy Jones and the Six" was a recent Reese Witherspoon book club choice.

"Just One Damned Thing After Another" is the first of a time travel/historical fiction series by Jodi Taylor. This series has been recommended by co-workers and many patrons and I enjoyed this novel as it weaved a little chaotically through its plot much like the characters who are on an adventure to save history through time-travel.  It was endearingly different and I look forward to reading more of this series.

Enjoy your summer reading while laying back in that beach chair, hammock in your back yard, or even listening as you drive toward your summer destination.  Share with us "Whats Your Four!" by posting on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter and tag @DuxburyFreeLibrary.